January 11 (SeeNews) - Albania started the Covid-19 immunisation of its population on Monday, a live video published by prime minister Edi Rama showed.
The prime minister was among the first people to receive a dose of the Covid-19 vaccine, according to the video posted on the prime minister's official Facebook page.
The immunisation started with vaccine doses donated by an unnamed country, local news daily Tirana Times reported on Monday. The first 975 doses of the vaccine will be delivered to the medical staff of the specialised Covid-19 hospitals in Tirana, according to the daily.
Albania plans to deliver a number of vaccine doses to Kosovo for the vaccination of the medical staff of the Covid-19 hospital in Pristina starting next week, Tirana Times quoted Rama as saying.
Rama said earlier this month that Albania has reached an agreement with U.S. pharmaceutical company Pfizer to receive an initial batch of 500,000 doses of its Covid-19 vaccine in January and February.